Toy



K. W. TAPLIN TOY Filed Nov. 13, 1944 April 10, 1945.

2 Sheets-Sheet l 3 wwwm Ke'qq'eflq v/ Tapliq q zwgmd Patented Apr. 10, 1945 UNITED f STATE PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in toys and has for an object thereof to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive and easily operated sound producing toy having a plurality of moving parts presenting an entertaining display.

More specifically, it is ano-bject of the invention to provide a rotary member, revoluble in a mounting or rollable along a support, such member carrying a plurality of abutments and pivoted strikers swingable, by gravity, to strike said abutments as said member turns, a feature of the in-' vention resides in the employment of rails about the axis of the revoluble member having the dual function of providing pivotal supports for some 'of the strikers and abutments for others thereof.

Another feature of the invention resides in the provision of an axial abutment against WiTiQh the strikers strike, a further feature residing in the arrangement of the strikers in pairs successively along the revoluble member with the strikers of each pair overreachi'ng opposite sides of the axial abutment. A still further feature of the invention resides indisposing the strikers ,which view of a toy embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of an alternate form of the invention, and Fig. 4, is .asectional' view taken on the line 44 of. Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings wherein similar parts are designated by similar reference characters, it will be seen that the form of myinvention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises amounting A and a revoluble member B supported thereby.

The mounting A consists of a base I0 to which posts H, I2 are secured.

The revoluble member B includes a shaft is,

spaced heads X thereon, and rails l4 carried at their ends by said heads. One end of the shaft I3 is journaled in the post ll While the other end of said shaft is journaled in the post l2, said latter end of the shaft extending through said post l2 and being provided with a crank l5, which when turned. rotates the shaft l3 and with it the heads X and rails 14. The heads X are spider-like, each head being formed with a hub portion l6 fixed to the shaft [3 and each head having, four radial arms I! spaced apart oted to diametrically opposed rails Hi.

ninety degrees, the arms I I of the two heads A registering with each other. The rails M are rods, the opposite ends of each thereof being securedin the ends of two registering arms ll of the heads X.

Pivoted at their ends on the rails M, are strikers a, a 1), b 0, 0 d and d which may be of any suitable form, preferably of the bar-like or paddle-like form shown. Conveniently, this form of striker is pivoted to a rail [4 "by forming a hole edgewise through the striker and threading it on the rail before the rail is secured to its respective arms H of the heads X. Said strikers are arranged in pairs at opposite sides of the shaft I 3 in successive zones lengthwise of the revoluble member B, there being one pair of strikers to each zone, the strikers of each pair being piva, a are the strikers of one pair in one zone transversely of the member B, strikers b, b the strikers of a second pair in the next zone, strikers c, c the strikers of a third pair in a third zone andstrikers d, d the strikers of a fourth zone.

Each of the strikers a, a b, b 0, c and d, d is of a length and is disposed to extend between the shaft l3 and a rail l4 other than that on which such striker is pivoted. Thus, the shaft I 3 constitutes an abutment or anvil against which each striker impinges upon swinging in one direction, an abutment or anvil against which such striker impinges upon swinging in the opposite direction being constituted 'by a rail H5 other than the one pivotally supporting such striker.

S0 arranged, the opposed strikers of each pair swing, by gravity, each striking the shaft l3 and then its respective abutment rail 14, or vice versa, upon each revolution of the member B, resulting in active movements of the strikers accompanied with noise-making impacts thereof against their abutments. Coloring of the strikers a, a 22, b 0, c and d, d in contrasting colors adds to the display of movement and their formation to provide for different tones upon impact enhances the noise effect. In said latter respect, the invention contemplates the formation of the strikers from different materials in different crossseotional designs, as well as the formation of holes l8 in bar-like strikers, as shown in Fig, 1 of the drawings.

Strikers may be employed in as many pairs as desired and those of them that are pivoted along the same rail I4 will be disposed alternately at opposite sides of the shaft l3 after the fashion of the strikers a, c and b, d and c, a and 01, 17

Reference being had to the alternate form of Strikers my invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, it will be seen that the rails l9 are secured to circular heads 20 which may roll along the floor or other supporting surface and that the revoluble member E, composed of said rails 19 and heads 20, may be pushed or pulled, as by a tongue 2| connected to trunnions 22 on said heads 2|]. This form of toy is devoid of an axial shaft or abutment and has three rails 19. Each of these rails H! has a striker e pivoted thereto and each striker is of such a length and so disposed that it swings on its supporting rail I9,'first against one of the other rails l9, and then against the third rail, upon each revolution of the member E. Each rail IQ, of course, may pivotally support any number of strikers that may be accommodated within the length of the revoluble member E. As compared with the first described form of my invention, each striker e of the second described.

form strikes two rails constituting abutments therefor instead of one such rail and an abutment shaft disposed inwardly of said rails.

Changes in the specific form of my invention, as herein described, may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis and consisting of an axial shaft, heads on said shaft, and rails mounted at their ends on said heads and spaced apart circumferentially about the shaft, there being two pairs of rails, the rails of each pair being oppositely disposed relative to the shaft, strikers carried by each rail, said strikers being arranged in pairs in successive zones transversely of the revoluble member, one pair to each zone, the strikers of each pair being disposed at opposite sides of said shaft, one striker of each pair being pivotally supported at one end by one rail of one pair and the other striker of such pair of strikers being pivotally supported at one end by the other rail of such pair, each striker extending from its supporting rail between said shaft and one of the rails of the other pair and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against such rail and said shaft to strike each thereof upon each revolution of said member.

2. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis and consisting of an axle, heads on said axle and rails spaced circumferentially about the axle and mounted at their ends on said heads, a plurality of. strikers, one for each of diiferent rails, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and extending therefrom to a position between saidaxle and another of said rails, and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against such rail and said axle to strike each thereof upon each revolution of said member.

3. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis and consisting of an axle, heads on said axle and rails spaced circumferentially about said axle and mounted at their ends on said heads,

. a succession of strikers, there being a number thereof for each rail, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and extending therefrom between said axle and another of said rails and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against such rail and said axle to strike each thereof upon each revolution of said member, those of said strikers pivoted to the same rail being disposed, progressively thereof, at opposite sides of said axle.

4. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis and consisting of a pair of heads and a shaft and rails extending from one head to the other, said rails being spaced circumferentially about said shaft, a succession of strikers, there being a number thereof for each rail, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and extending between said shaft and another of said rails and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against such rail and said shaft to strike each thereof upon each revolution of said member.

5. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis, said member including an inner abutment and outer abutments extending axially of said member,.the outer abutments being spaced circumferentially about said inner abutment, and a plurality of strikers, each striker being pivotally supported at one end thereof by one of said abutments and extending between two of the other of said abutments and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against said two abutments to strike eachthereof upon each revolution of said member.

6. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis, said member including a plurality of rails spaced circumferentially about said axis, strikers, one for each rail, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and extending therefrom inside of another of said rails and adapted, by gravity, to swing away from and back against such rail to strike the same upon each revolution-of said member.

7. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis, said member including a plurality of rails spaced circumferentially about said axis, strikers, one for each of different rails, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and being of a length to reach to another of said rails and adapted, by gravity, to swing away from and back against such rail to trike the same upon each revolution of said member.

8. In a toy, a member revoluble about a horizontal axis, said member including a plurality of rails spaced circumferentially about said axis, strikers, one for each rail, each striker being pivoted at one end thereof to its respective rail and extending between two of the other rails and adapted, by gravity, to swing back and forth against said two rails to strike each thereof upon each revolution of said member.

KENNETH W. TAPLIN. 

